Usually after “short” vowels in word of two or more syllables.

batts

Britt

butt

Matt

mitt

mutt

putt

watt

 

attach

attack

attempt

attend

attract

batted

batting

batten

batter

battlers

better

betting

bitten

bitter

blotter

blotting

bottling

bottom

butter

butting

buttocks

button

buttress

chattel

chatter

chatting

clatter

clotted

clotting

clutter

cotton

critter

cutter

cutting

ditty

dotting

dratted

fatten

fatter

fattest

fitted

fitter

fittest

fitting

flatten

flatter

flattest

flitted

flutter

fretting

fritter

getting

glitter

glottal

glutton

gotten

gritted

gritting

gutted

gutter

hitter

hitting

hottest

jetting

jitters

jotter

jotting

kitten

knitter

knitting

knotting

latter

lattice

letter

lettuce

litter

littler

littlest

matter

mattress

mitten

mutter

mutton

natter

nutter

otter

patter

pattern

patting

pitted

pitting

platter

plotter

plotting

potter

potting

putting

quitter

quitting

rattan

rattler

rotten

rotting

scatter

settee

setter

setting

settler

settling

shatter

shutter

shutting

sitter

sitting

skittish

slitting

slotted

slotting

smattering

smitten

spatter

spitting

splatter

splitter

splutter

spotted

spotter

sputter

squatted

squatter

strutted

stutter

swatter

swatting

tatters

tattoo

titter

totter

trotter

trotting

twitter

utter

vetted

vetting

wetter

wettest

wetting

whetting

whittler

written

 

One response to “tt as in butter”

  1. me says:

    interesting… 🙁

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